It’s been a busy week in the shop. As usual, the more we get doen the less we post. So we’ll try to catch up here.
Matanuska – got the go ahead on her paint job so we’re sketching in the images and planning out the sequence of colors for her Milk Paint.
Connor, Paloma and F1 – These three are making a parallel path through the shop. Building in sets of two and three is going to be our standard operating procedure from now on. It’s just a lot more efficient. We slotted the fretboards, installed the frets and glued the fretboards in place. We’re doing the final shaping on F1 and Connor, then tomorrow we finish sanding and all three go to finish. Here are the latest pix.
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- Paloma – braced soundboard in place and pickup installed. Paloma is ready to close up
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- Paloma – in the solera getting her backboard glued on
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- F1 – Spool clamps won’t work on the irregular shape of the F1 ukulele
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- F1 – she’s a curvy gal that’s for sure. This is F1’s lower edge. This is one comfortable uke to hold. No sharp edges here.
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- F1 – the top edge looks slightly more conventional…but only slightly.
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- F1 – Wicked curves!
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- Slotting fretboards with our handy dandy, supa-cool, high zoot fret slotter.
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- Paloma – fretboard in place nearly ready for finishing.
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- Paloma – from the back
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- F1 – just your standard, run-of-the-mill, semi-hollow asymmetric, electric uke. Ho hum…
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- F1 – the contrast between the Maple neck and Padauk body is striking
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- Connor – fatbottom tenor with a cutout
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- Connor – Look at the narrow waist in this uke
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- Connor – close up of the cutout and super-narrow waist
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- F1 – Fretboard soundhole detail
Smile when you play that!™
WOW! Your F1 appear to be floating in air. Nice touch!
lots of variables with your semi solids.
Go for it!
Larry
I truly love building these semi-hollows because shaping the bodies is just like sculpting. There are simply no limits to the shapes you can make.